Hello, I just wanted to share some hope and a little year in update. I walked into Boaz's office a year ago having just tapered from Benzos, having tried all the really useless prescriptions for medication that my western doctors, bless their baffled hearts, plied me with. I was desperate, depressed, and afraid because I had been told this was "incurable." I had bladder pain, mostly, much of the time, and it could be 4-9 pain level any given day, mostly 6. Today I have bladder pain a few days of the month, but rarely hits 6. I am symptom free about 80 percent of the time, and forget all about my bladder much of the time, as well. I am physically strong and active and have a full life, which I can sustain. I have learned something very important from this journey of recovery, and that is to LISTEN to my body, and have strong BOUNDARIES. I am grateful for these lessons, they have been a real opportunity to grow. One thing I want to share with anyone here is that I have learned that this is a bumpy road! The graph's trajectory is UP but it goes up and down on its way up. This is why though we are sticking to protocol and taking the right herbs and doing what we are supposed to we still have rough patches. Our bodies are CLEANSING and DETOXING! This does not feel good. I went through a patch where I felt much worse than I did before treatment, and then I turned a major corner. I became aware of this pattern-the rough patch and then new plateau connection. So finally, at 10 months, i began slowly, slowly to turn a MAJOR corner. At 12 months, I realized that my pain levels had decreased dramatically. Now even in the midst of a little ovulation irritation I know all is well and I am on the road to wellness. I know my bladder's here but it's not my focus. This process will work, but it is a long road that requires a commitment to heal on all levels. I have been healing not just my body but my relationship to myself and others, as well. It may be a long challenging healing journey, but it has certainly been one of HOPE for me. I just want anyone out there suffering to know that it WILL GET BETTER. HANG IN THERE. LOVE TO ALL.